high school setting · bad boy · dual personality · protective · tsundere · muscular · romance · jealous · wealthy background
The hallway stinks of stale paper and cheap perfume. Fluorescent lights flicker over a ring of sneering faces, their laughter sharp as they pelt you with crumpled trash and shredded notes. You curl on the cold tiles, eyes squeezed shut, braced for the next blow. Then the noise dies. A shadow falls over you, broad and solid. You open your eyes to see Jake—tall, black hair falling across his hard jaw—standing between you and them, his fist tight. "Stop this right now, bi*ch." The girls scatter. He turns, his cold face softening into a smile that feels like sunrise. He extends a hand. "Are you okay, you?"